In: web 2.0
7 Nov 2009
Google has launched many new services which are very useful in our daily life on internet. To make things much simpler and have maximum compatibility with Google services Google has also introduced Chrome a web browser. If you are a Chrome user than you can add many exiting and useful features to your browser with extensions. These extensions will make you browse faster, safer and smoother.
Here are some of the best Google Chrome extensions which you can download and install in your Chrome browser.
Before you install any extensions in Google Chrome you need to enable extension support in it. Click on the above link and run the installer in Google Chrome to enable extensions automatically. When you are done installing Dev Channel restart your Chrome browser. Now you will be able to install all the extensions easily.
If you have feed in your Google Reader account then you can install this extension to your chrome to get notified for any new item. When any of your feed is updated with a new item you can know right in your browser. Click on the button in the toolbar and you will directly go to your Reader page.
This extension will check web pages for any PDF links and opens them in Google Docs. By this way you can easily view PDF files even if you do not have PDF reader installed on your system. Also the PDF files will be saved in your Docs account so you can view them anytime.
Scrolling through web pages will not be smooth some times when graphics of videos are embedded in it. SmoothScroll ensures that you will scroll through the web page easily without any hitch.
This extension will minimize Chrome browser to system tray. This feature will be useful if you have many applications running at a time. If you are not using chrome for a movement and want access to windows in your Taskbar this will help. You can open new tab and new chrome window right from system tray.
Most of the modern browsers are coming with this feature as default option. You can add this feature to chrome by installing this extension. This will block all annoying ads in web pages so you can concentrate on the business end of the page.
Xmarks is one of the popular bookmark sync tool so that you can keep your bookmarks in multiple system always in sync. Xmarks has developed this extension which is in still alpha stage to use on Google Chrome.
Most of the ads that you see on web pages are flash based which are very attractive. This can easily draw your attention and loosing track of your work at last. Install FlashBlock to block all the flash content on web pages. You can choose to unblock any flash content on site if you wish so.
You can clear your browser history just by a click by using this extension. It will clear Chrome browsing history, cookies, download history, etc., so no one can know what you are browsing about.
This extension will restore Chrome to the point where you have left previously. This is very helpful if you have to leave in middle of work and come back to start the session from where you have left.
This extension will add a cool looking clock to your Google Chrome web browser. You can customize this clock to suit your taste and needs easily. This will ensure that you will have looked at the time in handy.
Web of Trust is a community where people can vote a site for its trust, privacy, child safety and reliability. This extension will bring information of the site you open in Chrome from the WOT community and display in the sidebar.
Did you use the mouse gesture feature in Gmail if so you will love this extension on Chrome? Using this extension you can easily move back and forth between web pages and also perform many other functions.
Normally when you open new tabs in Chrome they will be ordered in the way they are created. So newly created tabs will be placed back to the old once if you have many tabs opened in a window then you may lose track of new tabs. This extension will bring newly opened tabs to the foreground so you can track new tabs as they open.
Remembering many passwords can be difficult and in some times you can confuse one password with another. Lastpass is a Chrome extension that can remember passwords for you so that you will not have to remember all. Just remember the password that you will need to access lastpass.
Internet has shrunk the world into one virtual village where you can meet people talking in many different languages. With the help of this extension you can easily translate any web page or sentence in a page. The translated text will appear in a bubble in the same window so you will not have to navigate away from the page to get translation.

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1 Response to Best Google Chrome Extensions, What’s your Favorite
Matthew
November 8th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
As a head’s up, Chrome AdBlock+ has crashes my browser frequently. It has having trouble processing flash for some reason. I have no idea, but all I know is that about 100% of all flash ads will crash the browser and 30%-40% of actual content will crash as well.
The problem is that the crash will leave the flash plug-in process open and frozen(yes, I have tried killing it in every way I know) and the browser will remain crashed until rebooted.
I will rather deal with the ads.